Just a matrimonial strip tease

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FOR an erotic novel to hide behind anonymity feels almost discourteous to feminism. Writers do have a choice. If your intention is to distance yourself from your other books, then use a pseudonym — Ruth Rendell has made a reputation and a fortune from Barbara Vine. Anonymity reads like a tease, or more likely a clever marketing device, licence for a feeding frenzy in our media-savvy world.

If what you want to write is so personal that it’s potentially damaging to yourself or to others, then you can either do what Hanif Kureishi did, which is publish and be damned